Loaded Loads-up on Accolades

Since making its debut at the Grand National Roadster Show in January, Royce Glader’s 1929 Ford roadster pickup – which he has dubbed “Loaded” – has drubbed the competition in nearly every event it has entered. First, it took the Chip Foose Award of Design Excellence and a runner-up at the GNRS. Then it earned Glader the $20,000 prize at Darryl Starbird’s Tulsa show in February, the CASI Cup at the Detroit Autorama in March and just this past weekend in Columbus, Ohio, it won the Goodguys/Eagle One Street Rod of the Year. Glader, of Fort Collins, Colorado, had Eric Peratt of Pinkees Rod Shop in Windsor, Colorado, transform his dream of a cartoonish hot rod into a channeled, big-wheeled, 1955 Hemi-powered, deep maroon-painted trophy sweeper.

(This post originally appeared in the July 14, 2005, issue of the Hemmings eWeekly Newsletter.)